April 8, 2025 - by CSCS
This year’s Summer University on Effective High-Performance Computing and Data Analytics will be held from July 19 to 25, 2025 as an in-person event with participation opportunities for digital attendees.
The program will take place at Hotel Serpiano, located in the Italian speaking area of Switzerland. The hotel is positioned on Mount San Giorgio, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2003, wherefrom participants can enjoy an incredible view of Ceresio lake and its surroundings.
Extensive lab sessions will help to clarify and consolidate the theoretical material. The in-person training, which will be available live on Zoom for remote participants, will be composed of lectures and interactive sessions for hands-on exercises, as well as Q&A.
The following topics will be covered:
- GPU architecture
- GPU programming (CUDA)
- Programming model
- Memory management
- Performance optimization and scientific libraries
- GPU-Accelerated computing with Python
- NumPy-like libraries for both CPUs and GPUs computing
- Just-in-time compilation from Python code
- Distributed workloads on HPC clusters
The target audience is intermediate graduate students, which includes 3rd year Bachelor’s students, Master’s students, Ph.D. students, and early stage Postdocs.
BSc and MSc students will be able to earn six ECTS credit points and PhD students will be able to earn 4 ECTS credit points for this course from Università della Svizzera italiana (subject to exam).
For additional information, application and fees, visit event page >
Application deadline: Sunday, April 11, 2025 (CEST).